Pela liberdade religiosa e contra a perseguição ao cristianismo: contradições e particularidades do advocacy transnacional de defesa da igreja perseguida

• Autor(a) principal: OLIOSI, JULIANA DE SANTANA
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/2003
• topic: Liberdade religiosa; Ativismo transnacional; Igreja Perseguida; Religião e Relações Internacionais; Cristianismo; Religious freedom; Transnational advocacy; Persecuted church; Religion and International Relations; Christianity; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transnational activism against the persecution of Christianity in the post-Cold War period. For this, we adopt an interdisciplinary approach, using theories of the field of International Relations to analyze the religious phenomenon in question. We also dialogue with Studies of Religion and Social Sciences. We propose to question how the phenomenon of religious persecution of Christianity is interpreted in contemporary times, and how this stimulates the emergence of activist movements. The research results are presented in three chapters. In the first chapter, we developed the theoretical apparatus used in the research, introduced the postpositivist constructivist theory, discussed the possible relations between International Relations and Religious Studies, and explored the concept of transnational advocacy networks. In the next chapter, we analyze the development of the contemporary combat for religious freedom and against persecution by developing a brief historical overview of this militancy. We aim to understand the impact of post-Cold War transformations on the religious freedom advocacy and discuss their resignification and growth in the multipolar order. We discuss the hypothesis of the imagery of martyrdom as the guiding thread of this cause, and analyze the only organization of transnational advocacy against the persecution of Christianity that operates in Brazil. In the last chapter, we analyze the impacts of the discourse of this advocacy in the 21st century. We present its theological arguments, problematize the instrumentalization of the language of religious freedom, and the supposed status of Christianity as the most persecuted religion in the world today. We conclude by discussing the implications of this activism on politics and on subjects – religious or not